The railway in Dagestan was reopened for trains after a blast on Sunday in which eight wagons of a train derailed, sources from the southern regional centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations told Itar-Tass on Monday. They said the railway track to Baku was reopened on Sunday, and three trains have already travelled on it. At 5:17 am, Moscow time, on Monday repair work was finished and the railway was opened in both directions. Two blasts thundered in a terror act in the Kayakentsky district of Dagestan on Sunday. According to the investigation division, “following the first explosion which thundered under the locomotive of a freight train, eight wagons ran off the tracks, five of which overturned”. According to a source, “as a result of a fall of one of the wagons, the second explosive device went off 25 meters away from the first one”. The investigation believes that “terrorists planted the second explosive device in order to detonate it at a time when an investigation team arrives at the place of the explosion”. The investigation division instituted a criminal case under three articles of the Russian Criminal Code: a terror act, illicit purchase and storage of explosives and explosive devices, illicit production of explosives and explosive devices. Rail traffic was stopped in both directions, since one line was damaged over 150 meters and the second over 200 meters. The yield of the homemade explosive device, which went off under the locomotive, was five kilos in terms of TNT, and the yield of the second device, which was meant for investigators, was one kilo in terms of TNT.
